From 0bc030c417adfa7ca50944c918101dd9ce62bebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:17:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update information about DEB_TARGET_* variables
These are used to support building cross-compilers. Introduced in
dpkg 1.17.14.
---
policy.sgml | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 404dc73..72a2505 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2175,9 +2175,16 @@ zope.
the architecture on which debian/rules is run and
the package build is performed. The host architecture is the
architecture on which the resulting package will be installed
- and run. These are normally the same, but may be different in
+ and run. The target architecture is the architecture of the
+ packages that the compiler currently being built will generate.
+ These are normally the same, but may be different in
the case of cross-compilation (building packages for one
- architecture on machines of a different architecture).
+ architecture on machines of a different architecture), building a
+ cross-compiler (a compiler package that will generate objects for
+ one architecture, built on a machine of a different architecture)
+ or a Canadian cross-compiler (a compiler that will generate
+ objects for one architecture, built on a machine of a different
+ architecture, that will run on yet a different architecture).

@@ -2205,8 +2212,9 @@ zope.
DEB_*_GNU_TYPE)
where * is either BUILD for specification of
- the build architecture or HOST for specification of the
- host architecture.
+ the build architecture, HOST for specification of the
+ host architecture or TARGET for specification of the
+ target architecture.